Document Require Property

document-require-property

info experience: data-modelingexperience: consistency spec: schemas

properties should be present

The properties property should be present.

Rule definition

The full Spotlight rule — drop it into a ruleset (.spotlight.yaml / .spectral.yaml) and run it with any Spotlight tool.

document-require-property:
  title: Document Require Property
  reference: https://spotlight-rules.com/spec/rules/json-schema/document-require-property/
  description: The `properties` property should be present.
  message: properties should be present
  severity: info
  given: $
  then:
    field: properties
    function: truthy
  tags:
    - format:jsonschema
    - spec:schemas
    - experience:data-modeling
    - experience:consistency
  prompt: "You are editing a JSON Schema document to satisfy the Spotlight API
    governance rule 'document-require-property' (Document Require Property).
    Requirement: The `properties` property should be present. To fix: Ensure
    `properties` is present and non-empty at each matching location. Make the
    smallest change that satisfies the rule, leave all unrelated content, key
    order, comments, and formatting unchanged, and keep the document valid JSON
    Schema. Return only the complete corrected document, with no commentary."
AI fix prompt — send this to Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT with your artifact to auto-fix this rule
You are editing a JSON Schema document to satisfy the Spotlight API governance rule 'document-require-property' (Document Require Property). Requirement: The `properties` property should be present. To fix: Ensure `properties` is present and non-empty at each matching location. Make the smallest change that satisfies the rule, leave all unrelated content, key order, comments, and formatting unchanged, and keep the document valid JSON Schema. Return only the complete corrected document, with no commentary.
ArtifactJSON Schema
Applies at (given)$
Severityinfo — educational by default; raise to warn/error to enforce
Referencehttps://spotlight-rules.com/spec/rules/json-schema/document-require-property/